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  • SME
    Geologic Mapping Of Roof Conditions, Crown Ii Mine, Macoupin County, Illinois

    By W. J. Nelson

    Detailed underground geologic map- ping at a scale of 1:1200 has been carried out at the Crown II Mine of Freeman United Coal Mining Company, which operates in the Herrin (No. 6) Coal Member. The roof

    Jan 1, 1980

  • SME
    Crushing Practice At Reserve Mining Company

    By A. S. Henderson

    Eastern Mesabi taconite is one of the hardest rocks known, but fortunately it shows little tendency to pack in the crushers, when the minus 5/16 inch material is removed. The crushing circuit is essen

    Jan 1, 1959

  • SME
    Solvent Extraction Of Uranium From Very Dilute Solutions Using A Gas-Bubble Extractor ? Introduction

    By R. J. Andreini

    Solvent extraction is widely used in hydrometallurgical processing of uranium for purification and upgrading leach solutions prior to recovery of metal values. Conventional solvent extraction processi

    Jan 1, 1975

  • SME
    Modifications To Improve Sediment Pond Performance (073a2ef3-724f-4100-81cc-836f3c56b373)

    By Charles R. Jenkins

    Three sedimentation ponds had their performance evaluated before and after installation of modifications. Each pond had a floating baffle installed, two had siphon outlets and one had a floating outle

    Jan 1, 1985

  • SME
    Removal Of Pyrite From Pulverized Coal By Induced Roll Magnetic Separator ? Introduction

    By Andrew J. Gaber

    Beginning in 1961 the Coal Research Bureau of the West Virginia University School of Mines began a program of research to investigate the potential of the magnetic separation process to remove sulfur

    Jan 1, 1969

  • SME
    Utilization Of Waste Glass In Clay Brick ? Introduction

    By Alan H. Goode

    Of the 15 million tons of glass discarded in municipal wastes annually, about 2 million tons pass through incinerators and can be recovered by ore processing techniques. Although the primary use for t

    Jan 1, 1974

  • SME
    Mining And Land Use

    By Robert D. Thomson

    Land use is the single most important element affecting the quality of our physical environment. .The minerals industry is a user of land and by its very nature, directly affects the landscape. Mi

    Jan 1, 1976

  • SME
    In-Situ Roof Trusses Vs. Angle Roof Bolts - A Photoelastic Comparison ? Introduction

    By S. C. Gambrell

    The practice of roof bolting in world-wide mining activities is very well known, having been used extensively for over 50 years. The theory of roof bolting, however, is extremely complicated, and only

    Jan 1, 1970

  • SME
    The Pittsburg & Midway Coal Mining Co. Solvent Refined Coal Process - Introduction And Summary

    By C. D. Atkinson

    The past few years have seen a much greater concern about air pollution in this country. This concern has led to increased legislation restricting the discharge of many substances such as sulfur dioxi

    Jan 1, 1973

  • SME
    Preliminary Data Collection For Pit Slope Design ? Introduction

    By R. D. Call

    During the past fifteen years considerable progress has been made in the technology of slope design. It is possible to design rational slope angles if suitable data on geology, hydrology, and rock pro

    Jan 1, 1976

  • SME
    Design And Operating Characteristics For Large Flotation Cells ? Historical

    By Nathaniel Arbiter

    The development of flotation machines since the first industrial use of the process can be divided into three stages. The first, up to about 1930, was marked by diversity in the means for contacting f

    Jan 1, 1979

  • SME
    Waste Heap Reorientation By Explosive ? Introduction

    By W. A. Zingg

    Impervious zones in copper waste heaps create a problem in contacting the rock with leaching solutions. These zones are normally associated with compacted layers .formed on the surface of each lift by

    Jan 1, 1970

  • SME
    Trends In Real Prices Of Representative Mineral Commodities, 1890-1957

    By Charles W. Merrill

    The price records of 7 representative mineral commodities for the 68-year period 1890 through 1957 have been compiled and analyzed for significant trends. When reduced to real prices in terms of dolla

    Jan 1, 1959

  • SME
    Borehole Logging, Structural Properties Of Rock And The Design Of Mine Openings

    By Hemendra N. Kalia

    To plan a safe and efficient coal mining operation, the design engineer should use all the available information regarding the property to be exploited. The reliability of the mining operation must be

    Jan 1, 1973

  • SME
    Long Boom Design Considerations ? Introduction

    By O. E. Wheeler

    The use of the walking dragline as a stripping tool has increased dramatically in the past two decades. The reasons for its increased popularity and some historical background on its introduction into

    Jan 1, 1976

  • SME
    Instrumentation And Automatic Control Of Crushing And Grinding Facilities, New Concepts And New Development ? Introduction

    By G. C. Kachel

    During the past two years, there has been an increasing acceptance of process automation among ferrous, non-ferrous and non-metallic rock processing operations in an attempt to keep total unit costs i

    Jan 1, 1969

  • SME
    Beneficiation Of Mining Machines At The Ireland Mine By Design Changes

    By Evan Adams

    The Ireland Mine is located some seven miles South of Moundsville West Virginia, along the bank of the Ohio River. We are mining the Pittsburgh #8 seam. This seam is approximately 60" in thickness, an

    Jan 1, 1964

  • SME
    A Geochemical Exploration Program For Uranium And Gold In Selected Triassic Basins In North Carolina

    By John Callahan

    A stream sediment (minus 80-mesh and minus 60-mesh panned concentrates) and lithogeochdcal survey for gold did not locate any Triassic-age placer deposits in the northern Wadesboro and southern Sanfor

    Jan 1, 1979

  • SME
    Randolph Preparation Plant: Maximum Production With Minimum Maintenance

    By Lawrence M. Brennan

    Early in 1971 the Peabody Design and Preparation group began engineering on a preparation plant which was to process eight mil- lion tons per year of raw coal. For the first five or six years this pro

    Jan 1, 1976

  • SME
    Uranium Potential Of Zeolites In Volcanically Derived Sediments, Northern Reese River Valley, Nevada ? Introduction

    By Paul Basinski

    The Northern Reese River Valley is in west-central Lander County approximately 31 miles north of Austin, Nevada in the north-central Basin and Range Province (Figure 1). Authigenic zeolites, which wer

    Jan 1, 1979